. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. Vol. V. No. 113. THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 261. VINCENT COTTON Some disappointment was experienced at the beginning of the planting season owing to the low germination of the Sea Island cotton seed obtained by the Imperial Department of Agriculture from St. Vincent. Seed from cotton which had realized the best prices of that grown in Barbados was at once supplied instead, and good stands of cotton have been obtained. The unsatisfactory character of the seed obtained from St. Vincent has been carefully investi- gated b
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. Vol. V. No. 113. THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 261. VINCENT COTTON Some disappointment was experienced at the beginning of the planting season owing to the low germination of the Sea Island cotton seed obtained by the Imperial Department of Agriculture from St. Vincent. Seed from cotton which had realized the best prices of that grown in Barbados was at once supplied instead, and good stands of cotton have been obtained. The unsatisfactory character of the seed obtained from St. Vincent has been carefully investi- gated by Mr. T. Thornton and BIr. W. N. Sands. The following letter, dealing with the matter of the preparation of cotton seed for planting during the next season at St. Vincent, has recently been received from his Honour the Administrator;— I have the honour to enclose for recoi'd at the head- of the Department, and for the information of Sir D. Morris on his return, a copy of correspondence with the Agricultural Superintendent from which it will be seen that due steps have been taken to impress upon the local planters the necessity for exercising the utmost care in dealing with this matter of cotton seed. I presided at the meeting of the Agricultural and Commercial Society when Mr. Sands' paper was read, on which an interesting discussion followed. It was agreed, amongst other things, that timely arrangements should be made by the officers of the Department with the growers to ensure, as far as possible, a continual supply of seed-cotton at the factory for ginning from the date of its reopening, and that the Department should make preparations for commencing ginning somewhere about the middle of November, the date to be fixed beforehand by the Department in conference with the association. By this means it is hoped to avoid any lengthy storage of seed-cotton in the cottondoft prior to ginning, thus reducing risk of injury to seed, as also minimizing the loss that would
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